The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin

Told via multiple voices, interviews, and other documents, The Next Great Paulie Fink is a lighthearted yet surprisingly touching exploration of how we build up and tear down our own myths.about others, our communities, and ourselves. The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin As the school year begins, Caitlyn enters the seventh grade classroom in her new. The characters, the school, the legend of Paulie F. Ali Benjamin The Next Great Paulie Fink Kindle Edition by Ali Benjamin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 246 ratings Teachers' pick See all formats and editions Kindle 6.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.

Shes reaming out customer service workers. Shes rage-buying furniture they cant afford. When Caitlyn Breen begins her disorienting new life at Mitchell Schoolwhere the students take care of real live goats and study long-dead philosophers, and where there are only ten other students in the entire seventh gradeit seems like nobody can stop talking about some kid named Paulie Fink. Who was this kid, anyway - prankster, performance artist, philosopher, or fool? Caitlyn's quest to understand Paulie is about to teach her more about herself than she ever imagined. The Next Great Paulie Fink might be my favorite 2019 middle grade novel. She desperately wants to make the world better, but shes also just filled with fury. They'll find their next great Paulie Fink through a reality-show-style competition, to be judged by the only objective person around: Caitlyn, who never even met Paulie Fink. Her classmates are in for a shock of their own: Paulie Fink - the class clown, oddball, troublemaker, and evil genius - is gone this year.Īs stories of Paulie's high jinks unfold, his legend builds, until they realize there's only one way to fill the Paulie-sized hole in their class. When Caitlyn Breen enters the tiny Mitchell School in rural Mitchell, Vermont, she is a complete outsider: the seventh grade has just 10 other kids, and they've known each other since kindergarten. In this highly anticipated second novel by the author of the award-winning, best-selling The Thing About Jellyfish, being the new kid at school isn't easy, especially when you have to follow in the footsteps of a classroom prankster like Paulie Fink.